Transport from Gostynin, Ghetto, Poland to Chelmno, Extermination Camp, Poland on 17/04/1942

Gostynin (Waldrode), the capital of Gostynin (Waldrode) County, was situated in the Reichsgau Wartheland (known also as Warthegau), some 25 kilometers west of the city Płock (Plock). Before the outbreak of World War II, the Jews constituted around 30 percent of the town’s population.

Gostynin’s ghetto was established on March 15, 1941. It is estimated that approximately 3,500 Jews were incarcerated in the ghetto. In April 1941, the number of Jews in the ghetto began to decline as a result of deportations of the youth to labor camps. Among the Jews sent from Gostynin County to the Czarków labor camp near Konin there were a few who later reported on the fate of their communities....